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Elliptic boundary value problems with measurable coefficients and explosive boundary conditions
This Phd thesis follows two different directions, always related to elliptic boundary value problems. The first one concerns existence and regularity results for a wide class of non coercive operators with convection or drift lower order terms. The second one focuses on asymptotic behaviour of large solutions, namely solutions that blows up to infinity at the boundary of the domain, to semilinear elliptic problems
Finite temperature one-point functions in non-diagonal integrable field theories: the sine-Gordon model
We study the finite-temperature expectation values of exponential fields in
the sine-Gordon model. Using finite-volume regularization, we give a
low-temperature expansion of such quantities in terms of the connected diagonal
matrix elements, for which we provide explicit formulas. For special values of
the exponent, computations by other methods are available and used to validate
our findings. Our results can also be interpreted as a further support for a
previous conjecture about the connection between finite- and infinite-volume
form factors valid up to terms exponentially decaying in the volume.Comment: 24 pages, 15 figure
Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Higgs Production via Vector Boson Fusion using SCET: Numerical Results
Electroweak radiative corrections are computed for Higgs production through
vector boson fusion, qq->qqH, which is one of the most promising channels for
detecting and studying the Higgs boson at the LHC. Using soft-collinear
effective theory, we obtain numerical results for the resummed logarithmic
contributions to the hadronic cross section at next-to-leading logarithmic
order. We compare our results to HAWK and find good agreement below 2 TeV where
the logarithms do not dominate. The SCET method is at its best in the high LHC
energy domain where the corrections are found to be slightly larger than
predicted by HAWK and by other one-loop fixed order approximations. This is one
of the first tests of this formalism at the level of a hadronic cross section,
and demonstrates the viability of obtaining electroweak corrections for generic
processes without the need for difficult electroweak loop calculations.Comment: Some minor corrections, 4 refs. added. arXiv admin note: text overlap
with arXiv:1011.150
Precise Timing of the X-ray Pulsar 1E 1207.4-5209: A Steady Neutron Star Weakly Magnetized at Birth
We analyze all X-ray timing data on 1E 1207.4-5209 in supernova remnant PKS
1209-51/52 gathered in 2000-2005, and find a highly stable rotation with
P=424.130451(4) ms and period derivative of (9.6 +/- 9.4)E-17 s/s. This refutes
previous claims of large timing irregularities in these data. In the dipole
spin-down formalism, the 2-sigma upper limit on period derivative implies an
energy loss rate < 1.5E32 ergs/s, surface magnetic field strength B_p < 3.5E11
G, and characteristic age tau > 24 Myr. This tau exceeds the remnant age by 3
orders of magnitude, requiring that the pulsar was born spinning at its present
period. The X-ray luminosity of 1E 1207.4-5209, L(bol) ~= 2E33 ergs/s at 2 kpc,
exceeds its spin-down energy loss, implying that L(bol) derives from residual
cooling, and perhaps partly from accretion of supernova debris. The upper limit
on B_p is small enough to favor the electron cyclotron model for at least one
of the prominent absorption lines in its soft X-ray spectrum. This is the
second demonstrable case of a pulsar born spinning slowly and with a weak
B-field, after PSR J1852+0040 in Kesteven 79.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure, Latex, emulateapj style. Submitted to ApJ Letter
A Score-Driven Conditional Correlation Model for Noisy and Asynchronous Data: an Application to High-Frequency Covariance Dynamics
The analysis of the intraday dynamics of correlations among high-frequency
returns is challenging due to the presence of asynchronous trading and market
microstructure noise. Both effects may lead to significant data reduction and
may severely underestimate correlations if traditional methods for
low-frequency data are employed. We propose to model intraday log-prices
through a multivariate local-level model with score-driven covariance matrices
and to treat asynchronicity as a missing value problem. The main advantages of
this approach are: (i) all available data are used when filtering correlations,
(ii) market microstructure noise is taken into account, (iii) estimation is
performed through standard maximum likelihood methods. Our empirical analysis,
performed on 1-second NYSE data, shows that opening hours are dominated by
idiosyncratic risk and that a market factor progressively emerges in the second
part of the day. The method can be used as a nowcasting tool for high-frequency
data, allowing to study the real-time response of covariances to macro-news
announcements and to build intraday portfolios with very short optimization
horizons.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figures, 7 table
Disseminating an Evidence-Based Course to Teach Self-Management of Auditory Hallucinations
This multi-site project extended course dissemination of the 10-session Behavioral Management of Auditory Hallucinations Course to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mental health outpatient settings. The VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) model and Rogers\u27 theory of diffusion of innovations served as the theoretical framework. The course was taught to mental health professionals using teleconferencing, electronic media, and monthly conference calls across 24 VA mental health outpatient sites. Twenty course leaders provided feedback. One hundred percent reported being better able to communicate with patients about their voices and 96% reported improved understanding of the voice-hearing experience. Thirty-three course participants provided feedback. Ninety-four percent would recommend the course, 85% reported being better able to communicate with staff about their voices, and 66% reported being better able to manage their voices. Facilitators and barriers to course implementation are described
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